mketek82
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Hello,
We have been running FreeNAS at the office using old commodity hardware over the years and it's run very well. The purpose of our build is to provide more storage capacity both in disk space and slots available over time. There will be some redundancy using snapshots and ZFS send to work around failures if need be.
Our nightly backups are on average 30-50GB comprising of VMware CBT and Symantec BE2014 servicing Windows file servers. All traffic uses NFS. With that in mind our old 12TB FreeNAS system is starting to age and can no longer meet our retention needs.
Parts
I'm not certain on the volume configuration at the moment and recognize there are a couple ways to do it. Right now our storage on the old commodity setup is becoming limited (4x 3TB in Raidz1-0, ugh I know!) and failure prone that having 24 disks at our disposal will be a relief. As stated before - replication of snapshots will be sent to the old commodity server when it's out of production and can be reconfigured.
2x 10 4TB drives, raidz-2 for 58.2TB total
4x 6 4TB drives, raidz-2 for 58.4TB total
1x 24 4TB drives, raidz-3 for 76.4TB total
or a couple different raidz* mixes to get some reliable pools and some performance pools
We have been running FreeNAS at the office using old commodity hardware over the years and it's run very well. The purpose of our build is to provide more storage capacity both in disk space and slots available over time. There will be some redundancy using snapshots and ZFS send to work around failures if need be.
Our nightly backups are on average 30-50GB comprising of VMware CBT and Symantec BE2014 servicing Windows file servers. All traffic uses NFS. With that in mind our old 12TB FreeNAS system is starting to age and can no longer meet our retention needs.
Parts
- SuperChassis 846BE26-R920B 24 disk chassis, dual power supply
- MBD-X9DR7-TF+ -O SuperMicro LGA2011 dual socket board MB-X9DR7TF
- 2x SNK-P0050AP4 SuperMicro heatsink for CPU
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2609V2 2.5 GHz quad core, not high perf. but gives us memory expandability
- 8x Hynix 16GB ECC PC3-12800 1600MHZ DDR3 SDRAM, 128 GB total RAM with expand options later
- IBM M1015 to connect to chassis backplane
- 24x WD40EFRX WD Red 4TB SATA6
- SATADOM DESMV-16GD07SC1DC for FreeNAS OS
- Seagate ST240FP0021 - 600 Pro series 240GB MLC for ZIL
- Intel DC 3700 Series SSDSC2BA200G301 200GB for SLOG
I'm not certain on the volume configuration at the moment and recognize there are a couple ways to do it. Right now our storage on the old commodity setup is becoming limited (4x 3TB in Raidz1-0, ugh I know!) and failure prone that having 24 disks at our disposal will be a relief. As stated before - replication of snapshots will be sent to the old commodity server when it's out of production and can be reconfigured.
2x 10 4TB drives, raidz-2 for 58.2TB total
4x 6 4TB drives, raidz-2 for 58.4TB total
1x 24 4TB drives, raidz-3 for 76.4TB total
or a couple different raidz* mixes to get some reliable pools and some performance pools